‘Parliament is a high court, it is the grand inquest of the nation’: PHAC president ordered to appear before Commons

The rare order followed two others this year, dating back to March 31, when the House Special Committee on Canada-China Relations made the first such request.

Conservative House Leader Gérard Deltell presented a point-of-privilege motion to find PHAC in contempt of Parliament and for Iain Stewart, pictured, the agency’s president, to 'receive, on behalf of (PHAC), an admonishment delivered by the Speaker' for failing to deliver documents the House ordered.Photograph courtesy of ParlVu

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BY Christopher Guly

June 18, 2021

A rarely used parliamentary procedure will play out in the House of Commons at 3 p.m. on Monday if the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) complies with an order to stand before the brass bar of the Chamber and agree to transfer confidential records to the law clerk about the dismissal...

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